Father accused of having put the 12-year-old son to death with baseball bats

• A man from Connecticut is accused of having put his 12-year-old son to death with a baseball bat
• Anthony Andrew Esposito Jr., 52, was charged with special circumstances and a criminal attempt to commit murder after the death of his son on May 1st
• Esposito supposedly told the police that he heard voices

A man from Connecticut is accused of pushing his 12-year-old son to death with a baseball bat and trying to kill his 16-year-old daughter.

According to an explanation of the police in Branford-East of New Haven, 52-year-old Anthony Andrew Esposito Jr. was charged with murder on Thursday, May 1st, for murder and a criminal attempt.

According to a police report from The Hartford Courant And Stamford Advocate, The police reacted to an apartment on Hemlock Road at around 4 p.m. after a woman called to say that Esposito killed someone in his house.

When the police were on their way to the scene, they learned that Esposito had left the apartment and drove in his silver Chrysler Pacifica, the outlets reported.

The investigators who entered the unit found Esposito's 12-year-old son on the ground of the basement with head trauma, and according to the report, he was declared dead by a paramedic.

Connecticut State Police Troopers then withdrew Esposito on Route 79 of the state near the city line near Durham and Madison. He was brought to the North Branford police for survey. First, Esposito asked for a police officer in North Haven called “Jimmy” and only spoke to the investigators after he was told that he should not speak to “Jimmy”, said the police report.

Esposito told the investigators that his son had treated him “[disrespectfully]”And would use explosives with him, the outlets said. He also told the police that he often heard voices in his head – that of his mother and father, whom he abused as a child. On May 1, the voices said:” Don't let him get away with that [it]. ”

The 52-year-old said he heard the voices say: “Baseball, baseball bat.” He said he picked up the bat and started swinging him and, according to detectives, punching his son into the back of the head.

Esposito told the investigators that he then had to pick up his 16-year-old daughter from a bus stop, and according to the report, the two had an “uneventful trip home”. When she arrived home, his daughter asked about his son, and Esposito told her that he was in the basement. When they went to the stairs, he deliberately pushed his daughter and dropped her near his son's body.

The police report said that Esposito told investigators that if he had been able to get the baseball bat, he would probably have killed his daughter, but she escaped the basement that advocate reported. At that time he got into his car and went.

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The Bustle reported that the police also confiscated the Esposito body cameras from Esposito's free of traffic, which supposedly shows that he admits the murder.

Esposito was charged on Friday, May 2. A judge said during the hearing that he could be faced with the “terrible nature of allegations” according to the “terrible nature of the allegations” without the possibility of probation Advocate.

Esposito's murder accusation was improved with “special circumstances” because the victim was under 16, the outlets reported.

The public defender of Esposito claimed during the hearing that he had occurred most of his life psychological problems and, according to ABC news, was taken to the hospital several times for treatment. The lawyer also said that Esposito had no medication and asked that he was put under a suicide clock in prison.

In their explanation, the police said that she was working with the local public school, “to ensure that students and employees who are affected by this heartbreaking loss are available.”

“Our thoughts and prayers are with the victim's family, friends and all those affected in our community,” added the police.

Esposito is recorded with a bond of 3,000,000 US dollars.

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